[AT] Does Someone have a death wish?

[kgw]

This thing really is puzzling.  There ARE places from which names such 
as Pam's could be located, such as an extensive photo album of the SEL 
maintained by one of the Louisiana fellows; --Pete Alleman, I believe..

I have NO idea if it is Walt or not.  Sure sounds likely, but I feel 
that we must be awfully careful about placing blame without SOLID proof.

I suspect that some are doing some significant research into this 
(right, George?? ;-) )

Spencer, I cannot say I totally agree with your point No 3 below---Steve 
Barr is VERY active engine man, fairly active on the SEL list.  I have 
NO idea as to what any connections might be.

Might be a virus, but that would be LESS likely to get all of these 
misspelled names, etc., wouldn't it?

Just some thoughts.  Let's be cool.  I personally am not against 
vigilantism (some might hang ME for that!), but we GOTTA be right.

Whatever the case, Let's all HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW 
YEAR!!  Man, 2007---Who'd a thunk it!!!

-- 
__________
Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA


Spencer Yost wrote:

>I am not sure why this is happening, but there are a couple of facts that
>force a couple of conclusions:
>
>1 - Many of the names mentioned, like Paul Waugh's wife's name and the
>purposeful misspelling of Georges name, does not appear anywhere in ATIS
>archives, Old Iron Auction etc.
>
>2 - A very large number of the folks that have received this unsolicited
>material do not have addresses (or recent correct addresses) at
>OldIronAuction or the ATIS archives.  
>
>3 - It is only happening to AT subscribers.   It is not happening to SEL,
>AJD, Farmall, etc subscribers form what I can tell.
>
>4 - Addresses don't exist in most of the profiles, nor are the profiles
>even on the server.
>
>Conclusion:   This is caused by another site AT folks frequent or is the
>work of a virus in an AT list member's computer that is simply harvesting
>names and crossing to listings on the Internet directories for addresses
>(or a recently subscribed lurker  who is manually doing this) .  This is
>the typical "sales commission" scam for magazines brought forward 30 years
>to the Internet.  I can tell you it is not Dave Rotigel (aka Evil Dave).
>
>On another note.  I never suspected Walt because of the scope of the issue
>- He might of done it to one or two as a joke but not 20 or so.  In fact he
>called tonight because through Irma he heard of the accusations.  He asked
>to rely the message that he had nothing to do with this.   Take that at
>face value but I don't believe it was him.
>
>I am sorry to hear of folks trouble with this and please feel free to
>continue to discuss this on the list to try to zero in on the common
>denominator.
>
>Spencer Yost
>Owner, ATIS
>Plow the Net!
>http://www.atis.net
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